ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,281, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NUREVA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Method, apparatus and computer-readable media to create audio focus regions dissociated from the microphone system for the purpose of optimizing audio processing at precise spatial locations in a 3D space" was invented by Erica Patricia Yorga (Calgary, Canada), Richard Dale Ferguson (Okotoks, Canada), Kael Blais (Calgary, Canada), Mahdi Javer (Calgary, Canada) and Nicholas Norrie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media focusing sound signals from plural microphones in a 3D space, to determine audio signal proce...